Borders

The 2010 page about snapshot borders has been extensively updated and revised. So it is being reposted now.

Here are some examples of snapshot borders that are incorporated into the print. Any known dates will be included.

This one is so uneven it is probably from an amateur home dark room production. There are no parallel sides on this one at all.

This is a plain white border too but the print is off center. It is also printed with a wide border at the bottom like an RPPC, but it is not a post card.
It could have been done by an inexpensive, barely professional photo finisher.
Home dark room prints are often off center too.

This is a common border.
Narrow, unadorned white edge. Straight cut.

This is a very recognizable border. The wide white space at the bottom identifies it as a Polaroid print.

This is an earlier Polaroid print. Deckled edge top and bottom and two straight cut sides.

Here is an easily recognizable format. It is a Polaroid print with the pull tab still attached. Notice how the deckled edge camouflages the perforation.

This is called a "Deckled" edge. This is dye cut stock paper for standard prints used by many photo shops in the fifties and sixties.

This deckled edge example has rounded corners.

This is another "Deckled Edge"
but a different cut.

Here is a decorated edge something like the dye cut deckled edge. This however, this is a formal design specific for the size of the paper. The deckled edge can begin and end anywhere so it will fit any size.

This is a modern day border-less print. The film is developed, the prints are made and tucked into an envelope all by machine.

This one has "FOX CO" in two corners and five dots in the other two.

This one has a rounded corner design in the border but almost squared corners on the paper.
It says "WACO" and "OWL" in the corners.

This one looks as if a print mask/negative holder was designed using a conductor’s ticket punch.

The border designs are usually incorporated into the negative holder or pre-printed on the stock.

The date part is apparently changeable.

This one has rounded corners. The design is probably pre-printed on the blank stock.
Another with a changeable date.
"B anc C" and "1935"

Very subject oriented border with a date top and bottom.

A simple chain design.

An elaborate border for school pictures. Dudy?

These two have fairly simple lines and decorated corners.

This is the fanciest found so far.

Fanny advanced the film.
Daubert advanced.

Here is a border with perforations designed to fit into a booklet.

This is unusual. The deckled edged blank is also embossed with a line framing the print area.

This border resembles Roman design.

This one is a bit different. The border is incorporated into the print mask, changing the shape of the photograph itself.

This print has a date stamp in the border. This became popular with photo finishers in the sixties.

Here is a familiar one. Someone got out the old PINKING SHEARS
and made their own fancy border.
It's never quite straight.

This one has fifteen circles in each corner decoration.


This one has eleven.

This one and the one above look alike but, they are not. The design is reversed.

This is a bamboo design border.

This one looks similar to the "ELKO" and "FOXCO" designs but has no name in the corners. Also the chain design is smaller and slanted.

This one is similar to the FoxCo and Elko borders but has "Studer Photo, San Antonio, Texas" situated in the four corners.

This one has "ELKO" in four corners.

This one is like the ELKO design (above) but does not have "ELKO" in the corners.

This is another Elko border. A narrower design.

Lots of snapshots become wallet worn treasures. The frayed edges get trimmed away until only the essential subject is left.

Got any snapshot borders not shown here? Send them to LOST GALLERY and they will be included on this page.

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